Please contact the Gallery to enquire about our guided–tours and special access events and programs (including Art + Memory and Art + Connect) that can be tailored to meet your needs. All bookings required at least two weeks in advance.

Art + Memory program

Geelong Gallery’s Art + Memory program provides individuals living with early to mid-stage dementia a supportive environment to foster meaningful and intellectual engagement with life-long learning.

Geelong Gallery’s Art + Memory program provides individuals living with early to mid-stage dementia a supportive environment to foster meaningful and intellectual engagement with life-long learning.

Art + Memory tours will encourage health and well-being through visual and intellectual stimulation generated by discussion based on works of art and placing value on the participants’ own personal connections.

Please contact Geelong Gallery for further information regarding group bookings and tours for individuals and their carers or fill out the below booking enquiry form. Art + Memory sessions can also be booked as outreach and hosted in your aged care facility or community organisation.

Art + Connect

Embark on a free Art + Connect tour in the Gallery.

A tailored Gallery experience for people of all ages with a disability and special access needs. Facilitated group-based discussions, encourage looking and connecting ideas in works of art in the Gallery’s permanent collection—placing value on the participants’ own personal responses.

Art + Connect: outreach

Bring the Geelong Gallery to you—connect with the visual arts at your community organisation.

Geelong Gallery will visit your community organisation, aged care facility, or nursing home to facilitate group-based discussions, looking at works of art from the Gallery’s permanent collection. The program promotes health and well-being through visual and intellectual stimulation for people who are affected by barriers of access to arts, culture and learning activities due to factors of mobility, economic disadvantage and social context, transportation, mental health and isolation.

OpenAccess Tours

Explore Geelong Gallery Eugene von Guérard’s View of Geelong, 1856, and Frederick McCubbin’s A bush burial, 1890, with a free downloadable Auslan-interpreted and audio tour from Conexu Foundation. Available for you to download from the App store.